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Victoria's Year - English Literature and Culture 1837-1838 (Hardcover)
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Victoria's Year - English Literature and Culture 1837-1838 (Hardcover)
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Although 150 years have passed since Princess Victoria became
Queen, the first twelve months of her reign remain relatively
unexplored. In the first literary history to focus specifically on
the year 1837-1838, Richard L. Stein examines a wide variety of
cultural products--in visual art and architecture, statistics and
maps, scientific writing and popular journalism, and literature
itself--to reconstruct the thought and experience of England in
"Victoria's Year." Surveying such figures as Carlyle, Cruikshank,
Darwin, Dickens, Martineau, Ruskin, Tennyson, and Turner, this
wide-ranging volume examines the connections and discontinuities
within the values, beliefs, and modes of representation of this
brief cultural moment, describing how various arts struggled to
produce new, legible, and stable signs to reflect unprecedented
modes of experience in a rapidly changing culture. Stein shows how
this quest for legibility and certainty was often undermined from
inside and out, and the ways in which "the order of things," in
Foucault's sense of the phrase, was constantly being reasserted or
broken down. Revealing how this particular historical moment was
understood by those who lived it, and how an array of cultural
products served to mediate the most radically new and unfamiliar
aspects of the age, Victoria's Year offers new insights into the
process that created the myth of Victorianism.
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